Lost Empire

[aegisx]

Preview for new 4x game, Lost Empire: Immortals

http://pc.ign.com/articles/844/844984p1.html

Looks interesting. Need more detail about ship building though. Not sure if it is like SE5/Moo or GalCiv.

[Dkanre]

What do you mean regarding ship construction?

[Randallw]

That first screenshot looks a bit starcrafty.

It looks interesting. I have played Hearts of Iron from Paradox and that was good enough for me to make a mod. I know they didn't write it but their choice of games to distribute makes me optimistic.

There is also an Honorverse game coming out. Despite my dislike of the books I am interested in that.

http://www.rulethehonorverse.com/

[aegisx]

Dkanre said:
What do you mean regarding ship construction?

SE5 has tactical combat, so ship construction is extremely varied and not linear.

Galciv ship combat is a rock paper scissor model and very linear.

I think thats a good way to describe it...

[Dkanre]

Ship design is very varied

Though ship combat is mostly strategic

Nothing linear about combat, I think


I know a lot, I just can't say a lot

[aegisx]

Well when building a ship, are there different weapons with different characteristics? In SEV there are decisions to make when choosing Meson vs APB vs DUC vs High energy weapons.

[Dkanre]

Yes, there are weapons with different characteristics; for example, there are small-large weapons and point-defense weapons, with small ships using small weapons.

[Spectarofdeath]

So combat is galciv style where you just watch?

[Dkanre]

Basically, you watch a movie of the battle if you want to see the battle; it doesn't automatically come up like in SE4/5.

[Spectarofdeath]

Right, so you don't control your ships/units at all, correct?